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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Knowing what I know now after having kids do both, I'd start with gymnastics to see if the gym would want to put her on the pre-team track. For many gyms, it's amazing how early the kids are identified as team potential vs rec level (around your DD's age), and really hard for kids who come in later on the rec side to catch up. If your DD ends up choosing gym over dance, at least you gave her all of the chances you could.

Dance is much more forgiving, especially for ballet schools where the first level of serious study starts around 7-8. And if she ends up choosing other styles of dance over ballet, gymnastics skills will help.[/quote]

She's FOUR. And as someone who has been involved with gymnastics since before I can remember, any gym that is identifying 4 year olds for pre-team and/or refuses to look at older kids for team simply because they're older, is not a gym you want to go to.[/quote]

You're absolutely right, but the choices are limited around here once you factor in commute.

This was at Capital. The lowest pre-team level was full, at age 6 in 1st grade she had "aged out" of the preschool pre-team feeder developmental levels (the path most team kids seem to follow unless they're coming from another team), and she wasn't advanced enough for anything else. The key problem is that rec classes don't keep pace with team training AT ALL so the ever-widening gulf between rec and team just gets worse and worse over time. The training just isn't there to allow for catching up unless there's crazy natural talent at work. Hence my advice to get in when the track starts just to have the chance.[/quote]

Capital is batpoop crazy and I'd never send my kid there. Just IMO, of course. It works for some, but lord have mercy, that gym has some warped thinking.[/quote]

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